1900.

A modern fairy tale with a distinctly American setting, a delightfully levelheaded and assertive heroine, and engaging fantasy characters, the story was enormously popular and became a classic of children’s literature.



George M. Hill Company. It tells the story of how the Cowardly Lion, formerly part of the Omaha Circus, came to be in Oz and how he stopped the Wicked Witch of the East from getting the Flower of Oz.

Thompson dedicated the book to her sister Dorothy Thompson Curtis. In 2019 it became the first Oz book to fall into the public domain in twenty years.

Lion of Oz and the Badge of Courage details how Lion arrived in Oz and then propels him through a fast paced adventure where he displays then loses his Badge of Courage. The Lion (Jason Priestley), who was once part of the Omaha Circus, comes to Oz with the Wizard and starts on an adventure to stop the witch from obtaining the Flower of Oz.

The Cowardly Lion of Oz is the seventeenth volume in the Oz book series, and the third Oz novel written by Ruth Plumly Thompson. Lion of Oz is a 2000 animated film set before the 1900 children's novel The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. It is based upon the 1995 book Lion of Oz and the Badge of Courage by Roger S. Baum (great-grandson of L. Frank Baum, the original author of the Oz books). A little farm girl named Dorothy and her pet dog, Toto, get … Finally, he feels more confident about what he's been doing all along. The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, children’s book written by L. Frank Baum and first published in 1900. This story chronicles his adventures from a lion cub at the circus until he meets Dorothy, Scarecrow, Tin Woodman and Toto on the Yellow Brick Road as the Cowardly Lion of Oz.

Still, the Lion lacks confidence until he receives a drink of courage from the Wizard of Oz. Cowardly Lion of Oz (c.1923) The Cowardly Lion is kidnapped by Mustafa of Mudge for Mustafa's large menagerie of lions. As new friends and strange characters look to him for his courage, the Lion could lose exactly what it … With the help of American circus clown Notta Bit More and orphan Bobbie Downs, or Bob Up, he is rescued from Mustafa as well as from petrifaction caused by the stone giant Crunch. Though the drink is only a placebo, the Lion gets an instant dose of self-esteem, declaring that he feels "full of courage" (16.48). Someone soon misdirects the Lion into thinking that he can only replenish his courage by eating a courageous man.

Book 17 of The Wizard of Oz In the story, the Cowardly Lion believes that he has depleted the reserve of courage imbued in him by the Wizard (as told in The Wonderful Wizard of Oz).